Los Angeles County, California

Denominational Groups, 2000

587,981	300,009	69,947	3,806,377	764,062	3,990,962
Evangelical Protestant	Mainline Protestant	Orthodox	Catholic	Other	Unclaimed

Congregational "adherents" include all full members, their children, and others who regularly attend services. The historically African American denominations are not included in the 2000 congregation and membership totals. Many are also missing in 1990 and most historically African American denominations are missing in the 1980 reports.
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Reports

Religious Bodies	Theology	Congregations	Adherents	Adherence Rate^†
Catholic Church	Catholic	272	3,077,114	347.2
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	145	501,700	56.6
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	268,605	30.3
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	226	128,895	14.5
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	271	103,286	11.7
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	202	76,010	8.6
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	186	70,590	8.0
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	231	65,280	7.4
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	170	64,168	7.2
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	231	55,107	6.2
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	123	54,514	6.2
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	85	50,674	5.7
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	132	43,542	4.9
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	30	34,565	3.9
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	22	32,970	3.7
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	93	30,684	3.5
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	102	29,917	3.4
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	114	24,257	2.7
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	29	16,502	1.9
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	64	15,767	1.8
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	58	15,589	1.8
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	62	14,878	1.7
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch	Orthodox	3	9,000	1.0
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	13	7,936	0.9
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	7	7,458	0.8
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	31	7,038	0.8
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	7	6,766	0.8
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	23	6,693	0.8
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	47	6,214	0.7
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	18	5,591	0.6
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	30	5,357	0.6
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	14	3,584	0.4
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	25	3,414	0.4
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	24	3,332	0.4
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	30	3,401	0.4
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	12	3,147	0.4
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	15	3,127	0.4
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	17	2,691	0.3
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	16	2,589	0.3
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	17	2,125	0.2
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	29	2,060	0.2
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	9	1,750	0.2
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	17	1,464	0.2
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	20	1,432	0.2
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	13	1,081	0.1
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	20	973	0.1
American Association of Lutheran Churches	Evangelical Protestant	3	621	0.1
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	495	0.1
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	3	496	0.1
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	6	416	0.1
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church	Mainline Protestant	1	431	0.1
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	7	405	0.1
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	6	443	0.1
Moravian Church in America--Northern Province	Mainline Protestant	2	388	0.0
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses	Orthodox	1	387	0.0
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	2	340	0.0
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	5	304	0.0
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	4	295	0.0
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarene)	Evangelical Protestant	2	257	0.0
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	198	0.0
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	3	179	0.0
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	2	102	0.0
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	86	0.0
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	2	88	0.0
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	63	0.0
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	85	0.0
Seventh Day Baptist General Conference, USA and Canada	Evangelical Protestant	1	66	0.0
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	58	0.0
Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	65	0.0
Church of the United Brethren in Christ	Evangelical Protestant	3	107	0.0
Reformed Episcopal Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	40	0.0
Fire Baptized Holiness Church, (Wesleyan), The	Evangelical Protestant	2	18	0.0
Apostolic Lutheran Church of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	30	0.0
Reformed Church in the United States	Evangelical Protestant	1	28	0.0
Netherlands Reformed Congregations	Evangelical Protestant	1	27	0.0
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	75	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	3	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	4	n.a.	n.a.
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	11	n.a.	n.a.
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	39	n.a.	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	8	n.a.	n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	21	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	3,536	4,879,355

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 8,863,164. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (4,879,355) include 55.1% of the total population in 1990.

Source

The 1990 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and include statistics for 132 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Martin B. Bradley, Norman M. Green, Jr., Dale E. Jones, Mac Lynn, and Lou McNeil supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1990, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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^†The adherence rate provides the number of adherents of a particular group per 1,000 population. For example, in 2000 the Episcopal Church had an adherence rate of approximately 8 (8.1) in Autauga County, Alabama. This means that 8 out of every 1,000 people in Autauga County are Episcopalian.